Polling Place—lmpromptu Meeting.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2152, 26 November 1875, Page 2

Polling Place—lmpromptu Meeting.

j A public nieeting wa§'held this hwrcnvl ing at the Pacific Hotelgoj; lip at the spur of the moment; in cdnseqfifen'ce"of utfbjeination" being received; that the; vres>s?'| mendation of* Major Keddell aa/Bejurn^ ing. Officer to ■ fix a polling lidbthV "HtfL Grahamstowa instead of; at Shortlahd ■Jvas tobeiset aside; ■■> Amongst -those present wbinoticed—Messrs Ehrenfried, WilkhisonrWilson;^^ Wrcib«m;'»'^dtHfgf| Williams, Binney, Sterenson, and Vau. gban. ,!;Mf; Bjpney „^asVvot^d'lo the chair, who called upon Mr Wilkinson to Mr Wilkinson, briefly;:;.stated that Major Keddell was ''the ~'Returning Officer for the district, - and had" recommended Grahamstown as th# mpifer fitting pUce, and: had] called for tendeff for the erection of Polling-booths, which had beea, supplied..' Vi,nfbrmatjo^, -,hojtrever, 1 "had bSeh received that l)r Pollen had ■ insisted that the t polling WfihtHJ& •erected at Shortland. - 1^ The mattef'was discussed^andrtffe pb*ii* : tion of Crrahamstowil Regarded as decidedly tie best and.foost central foj the mfajority if Voters. ' The followingre'solution was moved by Mr Young,-se-. conded by Mr Wilson—"That his Worship the Mayor' be' Requested to -telegraph - o to.- r Bt yp PoUen^ on r the r subject; of Major, Kedde;ll*s recdmcbendal tion relitive to the appointment of a polling place in a more central pdsitiottff alid id i urge; that such' re^otnmendatibiFbe? not intepfered with. ' That this Ingeli&g3 ;considers the claim's of theCminers to a more central place are such as to necessitate the alteration regominended by the ! Beturaing' O&cer^ and^hear^wit^flffp^rpl" ! that private interests sho'Wdl b^allowel to interfere with such recommendation/- ---■ i —Carried unanimously. ! ,SEesclved ~ f ThatlMessrsiT Binney I Wilson, Yourigl and Ehrenfried be a de-{ i: putatito to thcMayor,requesting himyl&& forward the telegram immediately." ' [His^Worship the M^yori tre idafn, ; declined^ to forward the telegram, and ft" !#«■ sent;by theehairmaadf ihefiMt' I'ing.] ' ■ '■ ■ '. MoQ